Worst Collector's/Limited Edition Games

[Baron_BJ]

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I found the ME3 Collector's Edition to be well worth the 20 extra dollars. I think it is the fault of the people complaining about it, that they thought they were going to get more than what they got for only 20 bucks.

If you all were looking for a full and large hardback art book and a complete comic book and a high quality print, etc. etc. etc, you would be looking at a price over 100 dollars, somewhere around the range of what the Legendary Edition of Halo Reach cost, which was 150 dollars.

I don't even understand your complaint about the fabric patch. Mine looks awesome, and I'm looking into adding some velcro to my black hoodie to stick it to.

Of course you left out the From Ashes DLC that everybody else has to pay ten dollars for, and of course the nice metal case. Then the weapons and extra outfits for the squad members, and the N7 Hoodie for Shepard to use in his casual moments(which I love and am using). And of course, since I got it on the 360, the Normandy prop for my Avatar(which I am also using at the moment).

So what we have to download the soundtrack, burn it to a CD if you absolutely have to have it on a CD.

It makes me sad that I am a member of a group of people (gamers in general) that complain so much about nothing. I bet if some 80 dollar collector's edition for a new game came with a real gold bar that is worth 1,000 dollars, there would probably be a large group of people complaining that the gold bar wasn't shiny enough.

Grow up people, don't expect the world for such small amounts of money.

That's how much extra I paid for the ME3 Collector's Edition? I paid for it in full back in December of 2011, for some reason I recalled paying like $50 extra for it, but my memory is shitty anyway.

But defending it?

With regards to its contents; no I was not pleased, but most of it I was repeating from other peoples complaints (though I'm not nearly as annoyed now that I've found out how much I actually spent - I checked my receipt drawer after I read your post), so lets clarify.

Although the soundtrack wasn't on CD it wasn't a big deal for me, it would have been nice to have it on CD, but I don't really care.

The Lithograph was false advertising, plain and simple, that thing was flat out bullshit. Even referring to it as such is a flat out lie - It's a fucking postcard, a shitty postcard that was the same for every buyer.

That velcro patch? I can take it or leave it, I've just never cared for patches because I can never find a shirt or anything that would make decent use of them so it drives me nuts and I end up not using them.

The "pet" for Xbox Live avatars (I bought mine for the 360 as well). There anything to say? It just sits there.

The DLC? This will polarize people because of the "gutting" issue and all that, but that's not the point. I guess you can justify that as being $10.

The hoodie. It's a piece of cloth that drapes over the characters head when he's sitting on his ass. It's a reskin. Any coder worth a damn could pull that out of their ass so fast it would make your head spin.

The comic and the Art book are the problem. They were advertised as being unique to the collector's edition and were flat out advertisements - advertisements consumers had to pay for. If they were sold to people as such that would be fine, but they weren't, we were lied to. Other games have included their full artbooks in their collector's editions, like DNF, the Dark Souls CE (the CE for Dark Souls was the same cost as the regular version and it came with one), and unlike the ME3 artbook it wasn't the full size artbook warped and shrunk out of shape from the REAL artbook.

Few collector's editions have ever recieved this much scorn, ME3 even has "big names" (well, by internet standards) shitting on it, you've probably seen this one:

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2012/03/hard-corner-mass-effect-3-collector/

EDIT: I think I should clarify one thing: If the art book and comic book were ACTUALLY made for the Collector's Edition and the Lithograph wasn't a postcard and an actual Lithograph (You know, like how those items were AS FUCKING ADVERTISED I would say that this was an excellent CE, but as it stands, it's EA and Bioware slapping me in the face, repeatedly, with their metaphorical cock.

 

[Latinidiot]

I love the special editions i have bought so far. Bioshock II and deus ex. I still thInk that despite the game, the bioshock ii special edition is what every special edition should be. It had a cd with the music from the game, an artbook the size of my chair and about as heavy, a vynil with the music from the original bioshock, 2 posters, and the gAme itself. Bam!

 

[Moralio]

Agree about ME3 CE. Only good thing I really like about it is metal case for DVDs.

 

[Plinglebob]

If you all were looking for a full and large hardback art book and a complete comic book and a high quality print, etc. etc. etc, you would be looking at a price over 100 dollars, somewhere around the range of what the Legendary Edition of Halo Reach cost, which was 150 dollars.

This I would have to disagree with you on. I bought the Age of Empires III collectors edition on release for £50 (RRP), that included a soundtrack CD, a decent making of documentary and a hardback coffee table artbook with over 100 pages of concept art from the entire series. I've also bought the Heroes of Might and Magic collectors edition that contained all 5 games and expansions, a similar artbook, a pack of specially designed playing cards and a T-Shirt for £30 (though I believe it was £60 RRP).

OT: The worst one of the past couple of years is definitely FFXIII-2. Got conned by the shop into thinking it would be the one people had the oppotunity to get in the US with the full 4 disk soundtrack but no. Favourite in the past 3 years is probably Fable 3 because I think the fake book of a box was a really nice design.

 

[KingTiger]

I agree about ME3 collector edition which I just got, and Dawn of war 2: Retribution

I blame Warhammer40k: Space marine collector edition for making all others insignificant in comparison.

 

[targren]

Collector's Editions just aren't what they used to be.

This. And don't get me started on CE's that include "soundtracks" that actually don't have any of the really GOOD music on them. That's like an FF VI soundtrack that doesn't include Celes' theme!

Please come back, Working Designs!!!

 

[efrafa_6]

Skyrim's CE was terrible, for the price tag anyway.

 

[80Maxwell08]

The Witcher 2. Seriously the game, soundtrack and a guide what the hell were they-oh wait that was the normal edition. Sorry I don't really have a bad collector's edition experience.

 

[GundamSentinel]

I'm one of those stupid people who bought the The Force Unleashed Collector's edition. I did enjoy the game (not good, but fun), but the CE was awful. It contained:

- steelcase (whatever)
- three challenge levels (which I never played)
- one lightsaber crystal (which I didn't care for)
- one skin (which I never used)
- a 2Gb Flash Drive (wow, all of 2Gb!)
- a digital artbook (which was so cumbersome and crappy, that I viewed it once)

Luckily I got it for the same price as the normal edition, so I wasn't really bothered.

Trust me, the ME3 CE was miles better. At least it had good DLC, the soundtrack and a physical artbook.

 

[Rheinmetall]

I think I have bought only two collector's editions in my life and didn't have any complain: Fallout 3 and Dead Rising 2: Zombrex Edition. Fallout was quite generous I must admit, it had a nice booklet with hard cover with coloured designs from the game, a square metal box with a little handle inspired by the game's content, a dvd that never played, and a little statuette of the iconic Fallout little man with the smile. It was cool. Dead Rising 2 was not so rich, it had a pen filled with blue fluid that resembled a Zombrex injection, a dvd duration of 30' with the making of, and a metal cd case. Not "so special" edition, but it was only 5 Euros more expensive than the standard edition, so it was fair.